ABC13 is tracking crime and safety across Houston and in your
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Homicides 467
Last 12 months Through July 2022
Average Homicides 382
Yearly average 2019 to 2021
Homicide Rate 20.3
Per 100,000 people Last 12 months
Average Homicide Rate 16.6
Per 100,000 people 2019 to 2021
Homicides are up 22% over the last 12 months compared
to the average from 2019-2021, and they are trending up 0.4%
over the most recent 12 months compared to all of 2021.
The city averaged 9 homicides a week since last July. In
2019, that number was 5 a week.
One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate
was 12.1 per 100,000 residents, about the same as the rate of
being killed in a vehicle crash in Texas. During the pandemic, a
person’s chance of being murdered here rose well above the likelihood of
dying in a vehicle crash.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
About 53% of people live in neighborhoods where the murder
rate is up 20% or more over the last 12 months compared to the average
from 2019-2021.
ABC13’s data team looked at the Houston Police Department’s data by
neighborhood from 2019 through last month.
A closer look at Houston homicides neighborhood by
neighborhood
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the
last 12 months. The darker blue areas are neighborhoods with murder
rates higher than the citywide rate.
Click on any neighborhood on the map to see detailed figures, rates
and trends. You can also search for a street name, place, landmark or
zip code.
About 9% of people live where there was at least one
murder a month over the last year.